https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZvC_5leDY

According to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, almost half of all corporate money contributed to this year's US election campaigns has come from crypto backers and politicians are bending to their will with promises to reduce regulation and consumer protections. I expected the superPAC's would mostly fund Republicans, but most of the money seems to be going towards Democrats. Another interesting development: > PAC backed candidates were big winners. According to the data, out of 42 primary races where crypto-backed super PACs intervened, their preferred candidate won 86% of the time.

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Poe's law rule

Note all the dowvotes of leftist_lawyer's reply

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From a cyber security perspective how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install?
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    There have been several cases of the default OS installation being infected with malware. I would recommend always wiping the drive and installing your own OS. Firmware is less likely to contain malware targeted at individuals (or anyone else that is irrelevant to APT's), but it might be outdated and have unpatched vulnerabilities.

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    With Rust it's usually just a fluke that can be fixed by doing that, but C++ linker errors may indicate the start of several frustrating hours. That's been my experience at least.

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  • I've been having issues with my PC not waking from sleep, the fan keeps spinning, but the screen stays black, and it won't respond. I could just keep it on all the time, but it uses a lot of electricity, so I prefer not to. So far I've tried: - Using Wayland / X11 - Secure boot off/on - Installing the latest BIOS update - Waking with keyboard presses, mouse movement, power button Some more information: - Sleeps works fine on Windows. - I'm using an AMD CPU & GPU - I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I'm fully up-to-date (version 20240919). - I'm using kernel 6.10.9-1-default (64-bit) - I have a swap partition with the same size as my memory

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    Just take the string as bytes and hash it ffs

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    I was inspired by a recent blog post about contributing to KDE, but just found out I'm apparently blocked. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

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    Does anyone else have issues with the [canvas site](https://canvas.fediverse.events/)?

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    I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I'm interested in Linux, FOSS, and several other subjects.